Restless Slumber

Author: K.J. Sutton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1804944920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
'I told you the crown came at a cost.' Fortuna's world has been transformed. The faerie court is whispering in her head, her brother has lost touch with reality and an obstinate werewolf won't leave her side. And then there's Collith: her enigmatic, beautiful, infuriating mate. She hates him, so why is he causing her such turmoil? But as the new Queen of the Unseelie Court she is determined to uproot the corruption around her. The question is not if she has the strength - it's whether she can survive long enough.

Wild Nights

Author: Benjamin Reiss
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465094856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history -- one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed society, its tacitly accepted rules, and their troubling consequences. Today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents. But for most of human history, practically no one slept this way. Tracing sleep's transformation since the dawn of the industrial age, Reiss weaves together insights from literature, social and medical history, and cutting-edge science to show how and why we have tried and failed to tame sleep. In lyrical prose, he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond, telling the stories of troubled sleepers, hibernating peasants, sleepwalking preachers, cave-dwelling sleep researchers, slaves who led nighttime uprisings, rebellious workers, spectacularly frazzled parents, and utopian dreamers. We are hardly the first people, Reiss makes clear, to chafe against our modern rules for sleeping. A stirring testament to sleep's diversity, Wild Nights offers a profound reminder that in the vulnerability of slumber we can find our shared humanity. By peeling back the covers of history, Reiss recaptures sleep's mystery and grandeur and offers hope to weary readers: as sleep was transformed once before, so too can it change today.

Deadly Dreams

Author: K.J. Sutton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1804944866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445

Book Description
There was a moment of incandescent, blinding light. I was weightless. I was fearless. I was free. And then I woke up. Fortuna has made terrible sacrifices to protect those she loves. Her powers may be getting stronger but she feels broken. Collith is fighting his own demons and is further away than ever, while Laurie remains a tempting, frustrating mystery. But Fortuna knows she must hide it all from the Court. In a world of monsters, it's when you are most vulnerable that your enemies - new and old - start closing in.

Let's Talk about Sleep

Author: Daniel A. Barone
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538103990
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
News about sleep is everywhere we turn, and the statistics are numbing: Some 50-70 million Americans are affected by chronic sleep disorders and intermittent sleep problems; an estimated 30-35% of adults complain of insomnia; one in every 25 Americans takes a prescription sleep medication; more than a third of American adults don’t get enough sleep on a regular basis; sleep disorders account for an estimated $16 billion in medical costs each year, plus indirect costs due to missed days of work, decreased productivity and related factors. And questions abound: why do we need to sleep at all? What happens when we sleep? What happens to the brain? We know the brain is active when we sleep, but what about the mind? And what are dreams? An accessible and lively take on sleep, this book provides answers to those and other key questions. Along the way, it highlights the lessons a well-known neurologist has learned and what he shares with his patients on a daily basis. It discusses — in terms everyone can understand — what we know about sleep, what can go wrong with it, and what we can do to fix it. It also delves into what some of the great scientists and spiritual teachers have told us about sleep. The book is packed with useful information and suggestions that will improve all aspects of readers’ lives.

Fortuna Sworn

Author: K. J. Sutton
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9781804944899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'We were meant to be seductive. We were designed to lure humans in.' Fortuna Sworn is the last of her kind. Her brother has disappeared, leaving her alone. She hides among humans, spending her days working at a bar and her nights searching for him - until she catches the eye of a powerful faerie. Collith desires Fortuna. And if she will bind herself to him, he offers something irresistible. So Fortuna leaves her safe existence behind and descends into a world of glamorous creatures and deadly power. She soon realises it's not just her heart she has bargained with - but quite possibly her life. _______ The first book in the darkly addictive romantic fantasy series that's already a TikTok sensation! Perfect for fans of Holly Black and Sarah J. Maas. _______ 'I am obsessed.' 5* reader review 'Absolutely SMASHED my expectations' 5* reader review 'Deliciously dark' 5* reader review 'The world she created is absolutely amazing and I love all of the characters, even the ones that can't be trusted!' 5* reader review 'An incredible, lush romantic fantasy' 5* reader review

Beautiful Nightmares

Author: K.J. Sutton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 180494484X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
'Monster, monster, come out to play. Monster, monster, I've been waiting all day.' Everything Fortuna believed has been revealed as illusion and lies. Everything has changed. Now a prisoner in the Seelie Court, Fortuna discovers the game she has been playing is deadlier than she could have imagined. There's no time for pain or healing. There is only survival. Because a new threat is emerging from the shadows. An opponent who doesn't fight with swords or magic. An adversary she cannot overcome. It turns out Fortuna didn't know the meaning of fear... until now.

Restless in Sleep Country

Author: Paul Huebener
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228020417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be fixed by better habits and tracking gadgets, but the reality is more complicated. Sleep is a site of politics, culture, and power. In Restless in Sleep Country Paul Huebener pulls back the covers on cultural representations of sleep to show how they are entangled with issues of colonialism, homelessness, consumer culture, technology and privacy, the exploitation of labour, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though it almost entirely evades direct experience, sleep is the subject of a variety of potent narratives, each of which can serve to clarify and shape its role in our lives. In Canada, cultural visions of slumber circulate through such diverse forms as mattress commercials, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. By guiding us through this imaginative landscape, Huebener shows us how to develop a critical literacy of sleep. Lying down and closing our eyes is an act that carries surprisingly high stakes, going beyond individual sleep troubles. Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the idea of sleep as a crucial site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.

Materia Medica Pura

Author: Samuel Hahnemann
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Bulletin

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vocational education
Languages : en
Pages : 1222

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Materia medica

Author: Constantine Hering
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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